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Stanislaw Skalski saves German pilots - 1 IX 1939 . On 1st September 1939 Stanisław Skalski fights in the air with German planes since morning on his PZL P.11c. . On 1st September 1939 Stanisław Skalski fights in the air with German planes since morning on his PZL P.11c.
In the afternoon near Toruń, together with two other pilots, he attacks a reconnaissance Henschla Hs-126. Finally the plane was shot down by Marian Pisarek - it goes down and tries to land on a field. During this maneuver Henschel overturns, loses the engine and the crew falls out of the cockpit.
Skalski decides to land and search the wreck for maps.
He finds the observer in very bad condition, with several back shot wounds. He bandages him and prevents a possible lynch from the local villagers.
Next he searches for the pilot and finds him in the nearby bushes. He doesn't have any weapon so he uses a cigarette lighter to detain the stunned German.
Later Skalski waits with the pilots for an ambulance. Pilot Friedrich Wimmer and, first of all, observer Siegfried von Heymann may owe their lives to Skalski.
The diorama shows the downed Henschel, the "eleven", a field, a wood, in which Skalski detains the pilot, and the wounded observer with group of villagers. Part of them wants to bring the aggressor to justice.
Wounded observer
Some angry peasants
Stopping the angry ones
Observer bandaged by Skalski
Downed Henschel Hs-126
Skalski detains pilot with a cigarette lighter
Skalski's PZL P.11c
Poped-out engine
Road sign